[PATCH] kbuild: use objcopy to generate asm-offsets

[Masahiro Yamada]

On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 4:21 PM Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 03/09/2024 01:45, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum at oracle.com> writes:
> >> Remove the sed script and compile the C source listing structs and
> >> offsets to an object file (instead of assembly code) that embeds C source
> >> directly. Then extract the C source using objcopy.
> >>
> >
> > I threw some builders at this and hit a few errors:
>
> Thanks, I also got the ones from kernel test robot and figured something
> was going a bit wrong.
>
> There are several issues: clang wants - instead of /dev/stdout as an
> argument to objcopy, and then gcc has some bugs that prevent the numbers
> from appearing correctly on some architectures, also I had an extra # in
> the COMMENT() macro which only resulted in an error on some
> architectures. I've attached a tentative v2 that fixes these issues, but
> I'm still trying to figure out why m68k is giving me slightly different
> output for include/generated/asm-offsets.h and why the arc assembler
> fails.
>
> In the end I'm wondering if this patch is really worth it, given all the
> failures and little workarounds :-| If I can sort out the last few
> failures I'll submit it as an RFC.

This patch has zero benefit.

The current way (preprocess + sed) is faster than
your way (preprocess + compile + objcopy) and works
independently of tool quirks.








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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada